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Inga
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« on: November 12, 2008, 02:38AM »

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Incredibly beautiful singing

Everyone, the stream with Christmas melodies in department stores and shops are tired, we lay this Christmas CD by the Irish group "Celtic Woman" to heart. Guenter Verdin recommends listening tip as the most idiosyncratic version of "Little Drummer Boy" in conjunction with Gregorian singing.

But one should think that this song, after so many interpretations of great artists, including Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley to David Bowie, no longer abzugewinnen are nuances. That is a mistake, as this recording with "Celtic Woman" proves. "Celtic Woman": the five exceptionally beautiful ladies, from the producers of the globally successful "Riverdance" spectacle Step-marketed. Another Christmas album? you groan. Do not groan too soon. Because "Celtic Woman" is also traditional Christmas carols like "Silent Night" entirely new tone. Especially the "Silent Night" appears here in subtle instrumentation and by the crystalclear, gently guided voices of the artists in nearly terrestrial beauty. Besides the sophisticated polyphonic singing phrases also the Irish Film Orchestra substantially to the overall Spherical impression.

Already with her first album, "Celtic Woman" 45 weeks Platz 1 of the U.S. World Music charts documented. Also in Germany, the debut CD in the first 20 of the Media Control charts.

It is likely that the success with the Christmas album can continue. The song is singing at its finest, which is also in a difficult, well-known Tenorarie from a Mass by César Franck with the title "Panis Angelicus' worth. Irish temperament coupled with great expressive power also makes songs like "White Christmas" or the melancholy "Have Yourself a Merry Christmas" to the nuances of listening experiences. Of beauty, not good enough, there are on the album as a bonus track an astonishingly original big-band swing version of "Let It Snow."
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